Endowments; Mentally ill offenders; People with mental disabilities--Government policy; New York (State); New York Committee on Feeblemindedness; State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.). New York City Committee on Mental Hygiene; State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.); Cutting, Robert Bayard 1875-1918
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1886 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 80
Note
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The New York Committee on Feeblemindedness, established late in 1916, estimates that there are approximately 33,000 feebleminded persons -- one in every 300 of the population in the State of New York. Of these 33,000 there are, in institutions not int ended for them, some 4,500, of which number it is estimated that 1,500 are in State prisons and jails, 500 in reformatories for women and girls, and 1,000 in boys' reformatories. While all of the 4,500 inmates are menaces to society, and prone to criminality the feebleminded women of child-bearing age are of special menace, because the feebleminded woman is not only far less responsible morally than the normal woman, but she is especially prone to sexual practices. The estimate of the Committee on Feeblemindedness is that there are of such women approximately 700 in prisons jails and reformatories... The New York Committee on Feeblemindedness advocates the erection, at the State Custodial Asylum for Feebleminded Women at Newark, of at least one cottage for the care of disorderly and delinquent cases, apart from the other inmates, and planned for this special purpose " [SOURCE: Prison Association of New York. Prison Progress in 1916 - Seventy-Second Annual Report of the Prison Association of New York, 1916. Albany, J.B. Lyon Company, Printers, 1917, pp. 164-165. Accessed 5 Oct. 2018.] "NEW YORK COMMITTEE ON FEEBLEMINDEDNESS Chairman MR. R. BAYARD CUTTING Vice Chairman JOHN H. FINLEY, LL.D. MRS. CHARLES CARY RUMSEY. MR. FELIX ARBURG. Treasurer MR. ADOLPH LEWISOHN Secretary MR. GEORGE A. HASTINGS Executive Committee HOMER FOLKS, LL.D., Chairman MR. R. BAYARD CUTTING MISS ELEANOR H. JOHNSON MR. FRANKLIN B. KIRKBRIDE MISS MAUDE E. MINER PAUL MONROE, LL.D. THOMAS W. SALMON, M.D. SECOND ANNUAL REPORT OF THE New York Committee on Feeblemindedness During the fiscal year ended September 30, 1918, the New York Committee on Feeblemindedness has continued to carry on an organized campaign throughout New York State to secure more adequate facilities for the discovery, care, supervision, training and segregation of the feebleminded. It aims to enlarge the capacity and to increase the usefulness of State institutions; to help in the establishment of special classes in the public schools for backward and defective children; to aid in working out systems of guardianship and supervision in the home or the community; and to strive for effective measures and methods looking toward the prevention of feeblemindedness in the future. The Committee has continued its working arrangement of cooperation with the Committee on Mental Hygiene of the State Charities Aid Association, whereby the two Committees occupy the same office and operate their staffs as a unit. This has resulted in eliminating duplication of work and has made for substantial economy of operation, as well as greater efficiency." [SOURCE: State Charities Aid Association (N.Y.). The Year's Work in Mental Hygiene in New York State, Comprising: Annual report of the Mental Hygiene Committee of the State Charities Aid Association, Annual report of the State Charities Aid Association of the State Hospital Commission, Annual report of the New York Committee on Feeblemindedness. State Charities Aid Association of New York, 1 Nov. 1918, pp. 30-31. Brandeis Institutional Repository, http://hdl.handle.net/10192/27403. Accessed 5 Oct. 2018.] "CUTTING, ROBERT BAYARD (1875-1918). Associate organizing secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)...He was an organizer of the Intercollegiate Civic League and became chairman of the New York Commission on Feeblemindedness and treasurer of the National Commission on Provision for the Feebleminded." [SOURCE: "Biographies Of World War I Veterans: Abel – Isdell." The Green-Wood Historic Fund, https://www.green-wood.com/2017/biographies-of-world-war-i-veterans-part-one. Accessed 5 Oct. 2018.]